The purpose of this paper is to analyze literary works in 26 new literature textbooks for Grade 2 students of high school. The characteristics of modern short stories and novels in new literature textbooks compared with those in the 7th curricular ones can be summarized as follows:1. Literary works portrays the life of the lower class and social structure are selected more. 2. Literary works presented by mass media such as films, TV dramas, cartoons, portal sites on the internet, social network systems are selected more. 3. Foreign literary works are increased in new textbooks compared with those in the former curricular textbooks. And literary works of the Third World countries are accepted more widely. 4. Literary works by compatriots in China and North Korea are selected more. And local literary works attracted attention. 5. Literary works about multicultural society, gender equality, minority group, ecology, and future of society are selected. 6. Literary works of similar types are used for the learning of novel theory. 7. The emphasis on a particular work or an author has changed and the proportion of new works is increased. 8. Overlapping between the literary works in new literature textbooks and those in Korean textbooks for Grade 1 students of high school is reduced. 9. Literary works are balanced more in terms of the times that they are written. 10. Over a half of selected literatures are short stories, and extracting a part of a literature becomes more popular. 11. Over a half of works take P.O.V of Omniscient narrator whereas few works take P.O.V. of narrator as observer. New literature textbooks have some defects in the works selected as follows:1. As literature works to enhance students’ imagination, foreign literatures and particular authors’ works are preferred, which may causes a sort of biases. 2. Presenting mass media only with no mention about the original novel may deprive the opportunity for students to compare the characteristics of the two text in depth. 3. Discursive factors such as points of views and narrations need to be mentioned more compared to storytelling factors such as characters, backgrounds and plots. 4. Works of women writers and feminists need to be selected more. 5. More caution needs to be paid on the selection of contemporary popular works with a consideration of educational values. 6. Presenting an excerpt of a work without any mention of the whole work has been increased. Since it might causes biased understandings of the work, supplementary guides need to be provided.